Southern Baptists and Alcohol

We here at SBC TooDazed simply can’t let everyone else have all of the fun in the debate over alcohol, so we’ve decided, in order to crank up interest in our little blog prior to Indianapolis, that we shall tackle the alcohol debate ourselves. One of the passages on which the debate hinges is in John’s account of the wedding at Cana. Whatever this story may be telling us, the one thing we cannot believe is that Jesus turned water into actual wine. For our explanation of what did happen on that day we turn to our distinguished professor of New Testament, Dr. Allen David as he shares with us the Biblical view of alcohol and Jesus’ miracle at Cana. This message was from a recent chapel service at the Omnidirectional Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Come on. I am one who appreciates humor exceedingly so; but, I don’t have the taste for what this guy did with scripture as fodder for his humor…to include the line purportedly to Jesus, “How the hell did you do that?!”

You won’t typically find me spending much time defending my posts, but I’ll say a word of response to your comment, then I’ll be done with it. I have no illusions that Mr. Atkinson is a Christian man, but it seems clear to me that he is, in fact, making fun of Christians, and not God. If he’s not, then let’s just assume that I am using him to do so myself. You see, when people take the clear words of Scripture – you know, the ones that don’t require an MDiv to understand, the ones that just about any 8th grader could comprehend – and turns them into something else…well, then, you end up with Jesus being a good illusionist. He didn’t really turn water into wine. He just gave the illusion that he did. Well, if that’s the case then perhaps he did a lot of other “tricks” for people.

I suspect we’re about to see Mr. Lamekin argue that Jesus turned the water into something other than wine. Maybe something that looked (and even tasted?) strikingly like the real thing, but in the end was something else. Well, in that case, maybe the liberals are right and Jesus didn’t really rise from the dead but only appeared to do so. He wasn’t really dead, just like the “wine” at the wedding wasn’t really wine.

Actually, I have to put these little fun clips up just to keep from ripping my hair out. I don’t know of any attractive women who are bald.

This whole wine thing has been the strangest thing for me. I have never had a drop of alcohol in my life (well, cough syrup and and such) and I have devoted a lot of time blogging in defense of alcohol consumption. Is this the real world?

The only part of that I was referring to is the line attributed to Jesus that Mr. Hunt referenced up above.

And I was expressing my convictions. That is where I come down. I don’t expect everyone else to fall in line with my convictions.

I guess I’m not a good Baptist.

If feel guilty now, unburdening my soul to a woman not my wife. But then you are really a man, right? Actually, that might be worse.

One more, then I’m done (I promise). I don’t remember exactly where I read it, but isn’t it interesting that we don’t consider the phrase, “Oh, heavens!” to be inappropriate, but we do, “Oh, hell!” Yet Jesus did tell us not to swear by heaven and said nothing about swearing by hell.